So you are an Irish Catholic? The one who suffers from the
white, native-born Protestant, Mr. but. You are the one who
accuses him of prejudice! Let’s take a good look at you. Do you
like people? Of course you do. But what about Protestants?
What about Jews? What about Mexicans, Negroes, and Chinese?
What about your fellow Catholics—Italians, Poles, Lithuanians,
Slovaks, and others? What about your fellow Irish? How many
of you look down on them as inferior to yourselves? Don’t you
call your own illiterate and poor “Shanty Irish”? How many of
your own frustrations have you rationalized by blaming it on
“Catholic” prejudice? Is the Catholic church so very important
in your life because it represents a spiritual sanctuary or because
it’s a political power for jobs and material success? There are a
few of you that have gone out to battle against narrow national
ism, anti-Semitism, Jim Crow, and for the bettering of the eco

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